I hope you live a life you’re proud of. If you find that you’re not, I hope you have the strength to start all over again.
Eric RothI could easily forgive his pride, if he had not mortified mine.
Jane AustenStrange that the vanity which accompanies beauty - excusable perhaps when there is such great beauty, or at any rate understandable - should persist after the beauty was gone.
AristotleNever bend your head. Always hold it high. Look the world straight in the eye.
Helen KellerThe infinitely little have a pride infinitely great.
VoltaireWisdom ceases to be wisdom when it becomes too proud to weep, too grave to laugh and too selfish to seek other than itself.
Kahlil GibranDignity consists not in possessing honors but in the consciousness that we deserve them.
AristotleShame is pride's cloak.
William BlakeThrough pride we are ever deceiving ourselves. But deep down below the surface of the average conscience, a still small voice says to us something is out of tune.
Carl JungPride will spit in pride's face.
Thomas FullerIt is a living death if one is obsessed by pride ego and anger.
Sai BabaDesire is storm, greed is whirlpool, pride is precipice, attachment is avalanche, ego is volcano. Discard desire and you are liberated.
Sai BabaThat which is given with pride and ostentation is rather an ambition than a bounty.
Lucius Annaeus SenecaSearch well and be wise, nor believe that self-willed pride will ever be better than good counsel.
AeschylusVanity is a mark of humility, rather than of pride.
Jonathan SwiftPride goes before destruction and a haughty spirit before a fall.
Joseph AddisonA portion of mankind take pride in their vices and pursue their purpose, many more waver between doing what is right and complying with what is wrong.
HoraceWhat is pride? A rocket that emulates the stars.
William WordsworthNationalist pride, like other variants of pride, can be a substitute for self-respect.
Eric HofferFame is the inheritance, not of the dead but of the living. It is we who look back with lofty pride to the great names of antiquity.
William HazlittThe pride of the peacock is the glory of God.
William BlakeThe truest characters of ignorance are vanity and pride and arrogance.
Samuel ButlerIn general, pride is at the bottom of all great mistakes.
John RuskinIf I had only one sermon to preach, it would be a sermon against pride.
Gilbert K. ChestertonPoor nations are hungry and rich nations are proud, and pride and hunger will ever be at variance.
Jonathan SwiftLadies of Fashion starve their happiness to feed their vanity, and their love to feed their pride.
Charles Caleb ColtonPride, which inspires us with so much envy, is sometimes of use toward the moderating of it too.
Francois de La RochefoucauldPride does not wish to owe and vanity does not wish to pay.
Francois de La RochefoucauldTo have pride in your own motherland is important.
Sai BabaThe God of this world is riches, pleasure and pride.
Martin LutherThe cult of art gives pride, one never has too much of it.
Gustave FlaubertThe pride of the peacock is the glory of God. The lust of the goat is the bounty of God. The wrath of the lion is the wisdom of God. The nakedness of woman is the work of God.
William BlakeOne may be humble out of pride.
Michel de MontaigneOur vanity is hardest to wound precisely when our pride has just been wounded.
Friedrich NietzscheNothing is ever done beautifully which is done in rivalship: or nobly which is done in pride.
John RuskinHave a sense of pride in your motherland. Just as your mother has given birth to you, so too the land has given birth to you.
Sai BabaSelf-centered indulgence, pride and a lack of shame over sin, are now emblems of the American lifestyle.
Billy GrahamI like to see a man proud of the place in which he lives. I like to see a man live so that his place will be proud of him.
Abraham LincolnWhat pride to discover that nothing belongs to you - what a revelation.
Emile M. CioranThere is no cure for the pride of a virtuous nation but pure religion.
Reinhold NiebuhrIf across the Atlantic the ideology was pride, here it is delivering the goods.
Theodor W. Adorno'Born this Way' is about being yourself and loving who you are and being proud.
Lady GagaThe English are predisposed to pride, the French to vanity.
Jean-Jacques RousseauHow sweet I roamed from field to field and tasted all the summer's pride.
William BlakeI'm a black American, I am proud of my race. I am proud of who I am. I have a lot of pride and dignity.
Michael JacksonOne of the best temporary cures for pride and affectation is seasickness, a man who wants to vomit never puts on airs.
Josh BillingsIssues are never simple. One thing I'm proud of is that very rarely will you hear me simplify the issues.
Barack ObamaSo in our pride we ordered for breakfast an omelet toast and coffee, and what has just arrived is a tomato salad with onions, a dish of pickles, a big slice of watermelon, and two bottles of cream soda.
John Steinbeck'Tis pride rank pride and haughtiness of soul, I think the Romans call it stoicism.
Joseph AddisonThere can be no greater error than to expect or calculate upon real favors from nation to nation. It is an illusion which experience must cure, which a just pride ought to discard.
George WashingtonThey did it to try and belittle me, to try and to take away my pride. But I went through the whole system with them. And at the end I - I wanted the public to know that I was okay, even though I was hurting.
Michael JacksonVanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be proud without being vain. Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves, vanity to what we would have others think of us.
Jane AustenMy pride fell with my fortunes.
William ShakespeareThere is probably a perverse pride in my administration... that we were going to do the right thing even if short-term it was unpopular. And I think anybody who's occupied this office has to remember that success is determined by an intersection in policy and politics and that you can't be neglecting of marketing and P.R. and public opinion.
Barack Obama